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Why Am I Dead is a retro-style mystery game. You've recently been killed. Play as your disembodied ghost, take over control of other people in the hotel and investigate your own murder.

Use WASD to move around the hotel, press the space bar or Z to possess or de-possess people. Press E to open doors and interact with people. Use the arrow keys or W and S to select an answer if there are multiple options during a conversation.

UPDATE: 11/28 7:40 AM EST

Hey guys! Actually I've made updates to my game prior to today, but haven't edited the description. Fixed some bugs, including the problems Internet Explorer had with the preloader. Yay! I also implemented medals.

...And I also added some extra content! I had originally cut a lot of stuff out of the game, thinking no one would find it or care anyway. But the feedback I've gotten here motivated me to put some more work into the game, even if it's just a little. I want to give a huge, warm THANK YOU to everyone for your time and attention. :D

UPDATE: 11/18 7:25 PM EST
New version adds a link to a walkthrough in the pause menu, and fixes the unintentionally sadistic placement of the "Return to Main Menu" button.

Thanks to everyone for all of your feedback! I truly appreciate it. This is a really hectic weekend for me, so I've been struggling to react to your feedback as quickly as I'd like to. Thank you for your patience and support.

UPDATE: 11/17 7:30 PM EST
Uploaded a new version which fixes a bug with Morgan's dialogue and prevents the problem that some of you had with the final part of the game.

Reviews

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars2014-10-31 12:27:26

That was actually rather quite enjoyable. The plot twist at the end was fantastic, but what I really enjoyed, besides the story, was the gameplay mechanics of possessing people, and then using different combinations of talking to people as other people in order to move the story forward. Brilliant!

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars2014-10-12 14:07:28

Nice game. Was fun to possess different people ant try to troll others.
Got 1st ending. However, even after everyone speaked with everyone (with my little help) I still didn't managed to get secret ending and secret medals. And YouTube search failed too. So can I have any help here?
P.S. yes, some bugs present here. Thats why not 5 stars